Terminals

[david at lang.hm]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Walter Bender wrote:

> Curious as to what occasions need root access within X Windows? Maybe
> the console is enough?

if the console font has been changed to something more readable it can be 
used.

there end up being a surprising number of things where advanced users end 
up needing to tweak the system. not having to switch out of X to do it can 
be handy (this matters a bit less then usual currently due to forcing 
everything to be full screen)

David Lang

> -walter
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
>> One of our present security difficulties is that the Terminal activity
>> is not isolated. It is de-isolated so that it can serve the dual role of
>> root terminal and 'general exploration' terminal. Perhaps reviving the
>> Quake Terminal for the root-terminal role and isolating the Terminal
>> activity proper would be a nice way to solve half of our security issue?
>>
>> Michael
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